Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Starting this week and continuing for an indefinite period, trading will end at 2 p.m., 90 minutes earlier than usual, at the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange and in the over-the-counter market of unlisted issues. Most regional exchanges have adopted similarly shortened hours. The markets also decided to close for trading on Lincoln's Birthday, Feb. 12, to give back-office workers an extra day to whittle down the logjam...
...firing five then counter-attacked. Crane countered that "This talk has gone on over the years . . . you can't win in this business." Saying that he did not intend to belabor the point, but felt that "a few things should be straightened out," he defended his friendship with Wasserman as a "purely personal attachment" which predated his entrance into Cambridge politics. Crane recalled how his father--a Cambridge patrolman--had carried the Wasserman's wine (during prohibition) when the Wasserman family moved to a new home...
Married Alive is a depressing counter to the prevailing theory that great musicals are made from stable properties, workmanlike librettists, and aging song-writers...
...Boys Now. All this is Hertz's big push to counter the gains that have been made by Avis in the expanding car-rental market. Now Avis has changed its line. It has exported its popular "We try harder" campaign to Great Britain, has stopped its No. 2 talk at home. "We've reached a point where we are no longer the little second guy. We're big boys now," said William Bernbach, chairman of Doyle Dane Bernbach, which carries the over $6,000,000 Avis account. Now, D.D.B. has counted 47 bugs that plague car renters...
...their revenue passengers traveled on one sort of cut-rate fare or another, paying an average of only 4.350 a mile as against 6.750 a mile for travelers who paid full fares. Moreover, discount fares are costly to administer; sometimes they cause serious delays in ticketing and boarding while counter clerks rifle through tariff books in search of a cheaper fare among, for example, the 48 possibilities from New York to San Francisco. CAB recently allowed the carriers a slight curtailment in use plus a few small increases in "Discover America" excursion fares, which offer a 25% discount from regular...